I wanna be a billionaire just to show you fucking ilxor bozos it can be done correct. musk send me money pls
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:18 (three years ago)
thats effective altruism
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:20 (three years ago)
we shd poll which ilxor is the most effective recipient (its me)
― mark s, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:21 (three years ago)
listen even if i dont win i think whoever wins should give me a million dollars, i just want a taste, just need to get my beak wet
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:24 (three years ago)
hes really trying hard to sell this thing that no one wants in a way that no one cares about
Twitter will start incorporating mute & block signals from Blue Verified (not Legacy Blue) as downvotes— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 17, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:28 (three years ago)
anyway as far as my plans for the money i will use it to kill every other billionaire then with whatevers left over i will go on a world noodle tour
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:29 (three years ago)
lol
Tesla’s most prominent investors now openly feuding with Elno. pic.twitter.com/vXMTWsGrke— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) December 17, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 15:32 (three years ago)
And as predicted, while all the mainstream journalists who were banned come back, the indies who specifically track the far-right are still suspended. https://t.co/0rnBOUTSRs pic.twitter.com/7QPnXpWBHv— AZ Right Wing Watch (Kolektiva.social/@AZRWW) (@az_rww) December 17, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:07 (three years ago)
My brother used to say, if he became a millionaire/billionaire, he'd buy St Mirren FC and have a statue of our pet dog outside the stadium recreating a famous photo of him wearing our dad's glasses.
― Gulf VAR Syndrome (Tom D.), Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:12 (three years ago)
Shit if I got given one million bucks I'd just pay off all my family's debt and keep driving the same car.
Paying off debt like an aphrodisiac
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:25 (three years ago)
sorry but my family needs to learn personal responsibility
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:27 (three years ago)
I’d pay off debts but tithe 10% to myself for a stupid fund and see if I could buy all the props from Rob Zombie’s Munsters.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 17 December 2022 16:32 (three years ago)
I touch computers for a living and have no children so I already have enough money for everything I want, being a billionaire has no appeal rly
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Saturday, 17 December 2022 17:02 (three years ago)
Walking around handing out $100s to every person I encounter would be fun.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 17 December 2022 17:06 (three years ago)
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day— Thing Bad (@Merman_Melville) January 24, 2019
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 17:09 (three years ago)
John D. Rockefeller used to do this! Except he passed out shiny dimes.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 17 December 2022 18:30 (three years ago)
new bil, who dis
― normal AI yankovic (Hunt3r), Saturday, 17 December 2022 21:24 (three years ago)
the guy who just retired? his days are numbered
🧐 Much will come to light as Fauci loses power.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
― frogbs, Sunday, 18 December 2022 02:56 (three years ago)
Do we have to post all his lousy tweets in here, we know where to go get them
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 18 December 2022 02:57 (three years ago)
well it is his thread
― frogbs, Sunday, 18 December 2022 03:04 (three years ago)
I can’t really dispute that
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Sunday, 18 December 2022 03:25 (three years ago)
So few understand this— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 15, 2022
― frogbs, Sunday, 18 December 2022 03:28 (three years ago)
An open invitation for con artists to pimp their cryptocurrencies in his replies. The man has a scam kink.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 18 December 2022 04:49 (three years ago)
This will surprise many
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 18 December 2022 12:28 (three years ago)
the last tweet @taylorlorenz sent before elon musk kicked her off twitter: asking for comment for a story pic.twitter.com/DYAjlHcaqU— Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) December 18, 2022
― lag∞n, Sunday, 18 December 2022 16:14 (three years ago)
Elon Musk posted a picture of his live location at the World Cup. Elon Musk’s account should be suspended for doxxing the Twitter CEO.— Dash Dobrofsky (@DashDobrofsky) December 18, 2022
― groovypanda, Sunday, 18 December 2022 18:56 (three years ago)
Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) December 18, 2022
― Number None, Sunday, 18 December 2022 19:42 (three years ago)
We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter.— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) December 18, 2022
― Number None, Sunday, 18 December 2022 19:43 (three years ago)
It’s amazing how fundamentally he misunderstands what social media is and why people use it. It’s like someone buying a soccer team for 250% of its actual value and then getting all livid that the players can’t use their hands
― frogbs, Sunday, 18 December 2022 19:53 (three years ago)
seems like he basing it off his experience which is obviously completely atypical
― lag∞n, Sunday, 18 December 2022 19:54 (three years ago)
I mean this site was plenty exhausting during the Trump years but it’s so much worse when the dude actually owns the site and just makes up dumb rules on the fly
― frogbs, Sunday, 18 December 2022 19:54 (three years ago)
idk trump was genuinely bad for the world, this is just kinda funny imho
― lag∞n, Sunday, 18 December 2022 19:56 (three years ago)
one of those first as tragedy then as farce type situations
― lag∞n, Sunday, 18 December 2022 19:57 (three years ago)
Kind of like how many of the Paulie Walnuts storylines on Sopranos were intended to be pathetic mirror images of Tony's.
― Chris L, Sunday, 18 December 2022 20:01 (three years ago)
Bet he didn't enjoy it. Looks bloomin miserable. https://t.co/WG3T9dmP90— Jeremy Morris (@russophiliac) December 18, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 18 December 2022 21:39 (three years ago)
For my sins I’ve been on the internet a long time, but I can not remember seeing a forum—of any size—where the mod’s mother was posting about how his bad decisions are actually good. https://t.co/yLgy2X6vT6— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) December 18, 2022
― mark s, Sunday, 18 December 2022 21:43 (three years ago)
.
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 December 2022 21:53 (three years ago)
brb, getting my mom to start posting to ilx & arguing that all my posts are otm
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Sunday, 18 December 2022 21:53 (three years ago)
sums it up
IT IS IMPORTANT TO SPEND YOUR DAY DEFENDING THE ULTRA WEALTHY ONLINETHEY COULD SEE YOUR POST AND DECIDE YOU GET TO BE THE GUY WHO TURNS A CRANK THAT GRINDS HUMAN BEINGS IN A FINE PASTEAND WHEN YOUR DAY IN THE GRINDER COMES, THINK OF WHAT PROUD GOO YOU WILL BE— NOT A WOLF (@SICKOFWOLVES) May 15, 2020
― sleeve, Sunday, 18 December 2022 22:04 (three years ago)
xp
Yeah, I do call AsiaKitty 'the problem child'...what with all the A's she gets and academic and sports awards she wins, so maybe you are right. She got an F once on some quiz where she did all the math backwards by mistake. I posted it up proudly on the fridge. "Right on, Asia! Glad to see you have finally started to RELAX a little :)"Boy, did THAT piss her off!I laughed more.12 year olds are so easy to tease. Actually, I think she was 10 then.You should see when I get dressed slowly."Mom, you are gonna make me LATE!""Yeah, but Asia, you don't want to ALWAYS be on time. They might get used to it."But as soon as she starts posting under a name like "schlongdong" I'll selling those damn Foo Fighter's tickets on Craigslist.org !!!!― BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:35 AM (nineteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
I laughed more.
12 year olds are so easy to tease. Actually, I think she was 10 then.
You should see when I get dressed slowly.
"Mom, you are gonna make me LATE!"
"Yeah, but Asia, you don't want to ALWAYS be on time. They might get used to it."
But as soon as she starts posting under a name like "schlongdong" I'll selling those damn Foo Fighter's tickets on Craigslist.org !!!!
― BurmaKitty (BurmaKitty), Thursday, March 13, 2003 11:35 AM (nineteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― jaymc, Sunday, 18 December 2022 22:17 (three years ago)
Wonder if the World Cup was his "pls don't dismember me I'll get you your $13bn investment back" meeting.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 18 December 2022 22:29 (three years ago)
Haha! Based on his expression, it probably was.
― nickn, Sunday, 18 December 2022 23:17 (three years ago)
some great posts on the HN thread where they're pouring one out for the the world's stupidest lisp programming and finally realizing musk might not be all there
e.g.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34044183https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34044989https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34044371
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 18 December 2022 23:23 (three years ago)
*programmer
Not that I care about his happiness but dude truly seems like a guy who doesn’t enjoy much of anything.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 18 December 2022 23:23 (three years ago)
I'm just about as sick of reading about Musk as I am about Trump, and many sites I've read have replaced Trump with Musk as new bete noir.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 18 December 2022 23:42 (three years ago)
if Musk is depriving Trump of media attention, then I can live with that trade off. Musk is much less dangerous to my mental health.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 18 December 2022 23:49 (three years ago)
I missed this chat earlier but anybody who thinks that bill gates is a force for *improving* public health in the global south is naive to the point that I hope they have someone who checks in on them to make sure they're okay regularly
― plax (ico), Sunday, 18 December 2022 23:52 (three years ago)
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 19 December 2022 00:02 (three years ago)
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Monday, 19 December 2022 00:04 (three years ago)